Monday, August 29, 2011

fotos (August 29)

 At Elder Nielsons surpirse birthday party
 
Us celebrating his birthday!
 
This is my district with pres and his wife
 
a day after walking through puddles

August 29, 2011: HOLA

Hello my beautiful family!
I love you all so much and just want to Thank you all for everything youve done for me! I cant truly feel the power of your prayers! I have been really thinking and studying about prayer this past week. I Love to pray. I just realized how great it really is. At times we kind of go through the motions. I admit it. Im guilty. But how great it really is when we focus more in our prayers. Like it says in moronis promise we need a Corazon sincero.. a sincere heart in english and verdadera intencion.. true intention... I dont know what it says in english but EVERTIME we pray we need to pray with all we got! Pray with all our hearts! Because prayer is awesome! It is an opportunity to talk and converse with God. and if we listen and ponder while we pray he is always there listening to us. I love it! and i hope you all love prayer as much as me. Its kind of weird lately I have been obsessed with Prayer! I love it.. ANYWHO.. im doing amazing and I love my mission. We had interviews this passed week and they were great! President Brough is AMAZING! He is just such a great man! Filled with love! He is awesome! Interviews are so great with him. He gives such good advise and just leaves me to ponder things for weeks after that are just so great! I love it. But we had a cool lesson with a member this past week id like to share really quick because id like to send some pics. Anyway. theres a family we have been teaching and The dad is a member the rest arent he was baptized when he was 17 and got his call to go on his mission then had to go to the army hasnt gone back since he is now like 40ish. Anywho this recent convert/member was with us and after we taught lesson we asked her to share something and she bore the most awesome testimony ever! The spirit was so strong such a great lesson but first a little background. She was an Evangelist I dont know what their called but theyre really stubborn religious people Evangelios... any who the mom of this family and her went to the same chuch of the Evangelists... And so they knew each other!  it was cool but anyway she bore her testimony and she said something that was just awesome. she said The things ive been searching for in the Evangelio church for all my life i found in the lds church in days.. It was awesome!! anyway I love you all and hope all is well! I love to get pictures n stuff! And i love you all I have 3 minutes to send some pictures... Love you alllll!!
 
Con Amor
Elder Moon. The One and Only ;)

August 22, 2011: HOLAAA

Hello How is everyone? I sure hope just doin dandy! I am doing pretty good over here in Guatemala. I had some pretty bad Bu this passed week but I think im over it now. Bu is the runs/ diarreah haha ANYWHO... It was a pretty great week! Our Zone leaders gave us the Challenge to find a family everyday of this passed week. So we tried.. Started off the week with finding a family monday tuesday and wednesday which are usually the hard days to find people so we were pumped to find families these first three days.. Thursday Friday and Saturday citas fell like rain here and looks like in provo too! But we had great lessons those days with other investigadors. Saturday was Elder Nielsons birthday and so it was a fun day we woke up and made creps and then took a bunch of pictures funny ones then that night our most wonder family who we love so much threw him a suprise party thing it was super funny! I forgot my camera but I will send pictures next week! They are great! Sunday was a great day! I love Sundays they always seem like the best days for the work! I love it! But then this past week it rained like crazy and both our umbrellas broke so.. WE GO SOAKED haha it is crazy rain here but its great! Baby Alexandria is super duper cute!! Good work Stef.. and i guess Zach haha but She looks tiny! She is too cute! I love the pictues! Thanks I love to get pictures! And thanks mom I was wondering where Zac Hayward got his call thats crazy and he leaves the same time as Jerry? Well I love you all and I hope all is well foreveryone! I love you all so much! We have a great family progressing Family Donis so keep them in your prayers cause they live with her mom and everytime we leave she just calls us liars and just rips on us a bunch but they are a great family and came to church yesterday and loved it so Im excited for them! Remember, my wonderful family, do the simple things! They really are just the simple things yet so powerful!! Go to church! Read, and Pray! Its really that simple and things in life will be even more amazing! It will be easier to choose the right and Joy will fill your hearts because of the truthfullness of this Gospel and of this true church! Truly is the same perfect church that Christ established when we walked the earth! Oh how I love you all and pray for you all daily! Much love!!! Pictures next week! ;)
 
Love,
Elder Moon

Some pictures! (August 15th)

YAY haha  


Me riding my bike..


Our trio at the temple



 Elder Nielson and I just chillin


 Eating some Great tacos..


Monday, August 22, 2011

August 15, 2011: quick


This is gonna be quick because i wanna try and send some pictures but.. Things are well here. Rain is comin down like crazy the streets are rivers so there is nothing i can really do haha BUT SWIM just keep swimming swimming!! Its all good though the Lightning you ask? COOLEST STUFF EVERERRERERE hahaha Right above our heads its so cool But the thunder is loud so I dont think Molly would like it very muchh haha.. jks But all is well here we have a great family we found Family Donis They are great Every lesson the spirit is just so strong! Tears always fill their eyes because i know they feel the spirit too! They love it! ITs so great teaching them they are progressing fast! Well ima try and send some pictures I love you all and hope all is well back home! Everyone give Baby Alexandria a big ol smooch for UNCLE AL.. Love you all and God speed!... Thanks for being a great family.. THE BESTEST! Glad we will all be together forever...
 
Love you all
Elder Moon
 

Monday, August 15, 2011

August 8, 2011: HI;)

Hello
How is everyone doing? I hope good! Because I sure am! The mission is pretty great! I love it! This past week was a great week! Well besides the fact that our trio buddy Elder Dardon left yesterday for Peru. Elder Nielson and I are going to miss him! haha At first i didnt want it but then we all became best friends.. At first he didnt talk at all then we broke him out of his shell and he became as crazy as us. haha it was great but its all good he will be a great missionary in Peru. Sounds like you have had some good marriages? Thats great... I bet the flowers were just amazing! Anywho thats pretty great! Quick question... Is Molly Jane alive and well or are you guys hiding something from me? Im kinda curious... But HEY no big deal right... well kinda... Anywho... We have a fecha with Juan Alberto on the 21st... pretty great! I cant wait. He is a great guy. We had a pretty good week this past week.. We found 4 new families and 13 new investigators. It was a pretty solid week. But Saturday was probably the roughest day ever! Nobody wanted anything from us.. It was so weird we were just super down.. About ready to go home at like 830. Decided to knock one more door and before we even knocked a man answered and said did you knock? and we were like we were about to.. haha It was kinda weird but then hes like well... come on in.. So we went in and taught his family hopefully this family has some great potential! A mom and dad with their 3 children.. Great stuff.. Anyway how is the family? I loved the family pictures everyone is just growing right up! Kinda crazy! haha But Elder Nielsons Brother got married on saturday and for the wedding they had a cardboard cut out of him.. It was funny! Yeah I took the picture so i was pretty much a part of the wedding.. But yeah he was kinda bummed because his brother didnt wait just one more month for him to come home. haha But time sure is flying by. Ive already been in the field for one change! Thats crazy. Seems like just yesterday i entered! But this wednesday is Change meeting so we will be getting new zone leader and also a new AP. Tomorrow for our Zone leaders last pday we are going to a turf legit soccer field and playing a game. It will be legit! haha Im excited! Well I hope all the fam is good? Rain is crazy makes big Rivers in the streets. My shoes you ask.. lets just say they were made for dry weather haha o well I best be getting used to wet socks. I would use my boots but you never know if its going to rain that day or not... so its annoying. I wore my boots and it didnt rain. The next day i didnt rained like crazy haha oh well! Not sure what to do. Then also I think president just made a rule about boots and so im not sure if mine qualify or not.. :/ oops.. HAPPPY BIRTHDAY BRITTON TOMORROW!!!! YAYA!! What a stud! Tell him I love him and there will be something in the mail prolly for him.. I hope soon havent sent it yet but i will! And Also I would like to have a list or like something with everyone around my age serving and the mission they are in or are going to.. You could prolly give that assignment to Jeremiah or something and tell him to write me!! WELL Love you all and will hopefully send some pictures next week! Welp cya later..
 
Con Amor
Elder Moon ;)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

August 1, 2011: ;)

Hello my family! Sounds like you all had a great time for moms birthday! That is great! To answer dads questions.. Allergies are great! Like one or two break outs but not bad I just take a pill and sqirt some nose spray and im on my way... I only work with other missionarys like 3 or 4 times in a change because my comp is a district leader he goes to random meetings so i work with other elders in my zone. Then divisions every wednesday night with the ward but weve only done it once. I went with Bishop he is an awesome guy I love him! We went and taught our recent converts The Paz family and then some less active members! We gave a blessing to one of the mothers of the family she has been struggling lately but it was good! I love my ward. For P-Days it usually consists of going to the stake center at 8 meeting our zone there and just play our little hearts out! soccer volleyball or basketball its great fun. this past Pday we had a dress up time with ugly ugly clothes we were suppose to buy some in the Pacas but we never had time to do so. so monday night we asked Family Paz after Noche Hogar if they had some ugly clothes and they hooked us up haha it was funny. I had like a tight tight shirt that said Unionist its like a politics thing here. and A Bright orange vest for like crossing guards and a hard hat with tight tight pants it was great! Haha fun stuff... Then after we all played dress up we played water balloon volleyball. that was way fun too and then we went and ate at like 1 at mcdonalds... then went and got Elder Nielsons new suit fitted and im getting some sweet grey pants.. Im excited.. But other then that we just play and play then chill till 5 then get back to work. Great stuff. Anywho this past week was great! We have Family Moreno and Juan Alberto that we will prolly baptize this month! I love them they are great! Fam Moreno are a great couple their names are hard so i wont even try ahah but they are great! We just have to get them married now and then they will get baptized. Juan.. what a great guy! He has the most GLORIOUS mustache I have ever seen haha I love to teach him just so i can look at his mustache. haha No but really he is great! He is one of those guys that just agrees to everything but he is slowly understand the importance of our message and how great it really is! He will be ready here in about a week or so! I love him great guy. Sorry i have no punctuation or anything i kinda feel like that stuff is for the birds if you get what i mean. Anywho.. The people in Guatemala really are ready for the Gospel! I love it. I just greif inside when people say no it kills me! Because I know some where in them they know.. They really want to be like Just baptize me already they just dont have the guts to say it.. haha But some are ready and when we teach you can tell... just like the apostles say. The gospel really does have a familiar ring to it. And when they hear that ring you can see it in their faces it is super great I am loving Teaching these people! I love it! Oh how true this gospel is. OH HOW GREAT IT IS!! We had a great opportunity to go to the temple this weekend as well. IT was great! we went with the ward. It was their ward conference this weekend so we had an activity friday night got some investigators to come it was good. then saturday morning we went to the temple. Yeah we went at 4 in the morning! haha We had to wake up at 245. kinda rough but worth it. We were able to go because it was our recent converts first time and they were going to do baptisms and we were going to baptize them but we got there 5 minutes too late so that was sad. But they loved it and walked around the temple and felt the spirit still. We did a session and it was great! That afternoon was just a fun noon we played basketball and soccer with the ward had lots of investigatos come and play and hit some piƱatas it was super fun! that was good for our investigators and then sunday had the stake president there and it was really great! They extended our ward boundries so now we have a larger area but thats good cause a larger ward too! went from like 100 attending sacrament meeting to 165 attended yesterday it was great! Loving it But I got super sick yesterday! YAY haha My testimony grew.... We knocked a door and i told my comps if we get it Theres no way Im going to make it out of there without somethin extra in my pantelones so i just warned em.. sure enough we got it.. OH MY how i was praying.. We gave a good 30 minute lesson of me just holding on for dear life. Then we ended and some how with lots of stops and slow walking made it back to the house! But that holding for so long just made me sicker then ever I had no energy but I really saw the Lords hand in helping me yesterday no lie! haha I love you all and I hope all is well! I just love you ALL SOOO MUCH!! You are all the bestest! Much love and hope to hear from my sisters soon... Only people i havent heard from in a while haha LOVE YOU ALL THOUGh and farewell! pictures would be great! LOVE YA. Ill send pics next week

Love
Elder Moon ;)

PS GMA Jake I love getting your letters sooo MUCH!!!!!!!!! haha its a game sometimes reading them but I love em and can always figure them out!